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alannah travers
@AlannahTravers
Algorithmic Warfare and Civilian Harm PhD @qubschooloflaw @CeasefireCentre 🇮🇶 @c4jrOrg 📚 @SOASLaw 📮 [email protected]
- “Iranian women have been battling for their rights for these past 43 years... Stop a generation of women from running, and they give birth to girls with wings... It is the sunlight that keeps us all safe.” — Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe writes in @thetimes ♥️ thetimes.co.uk/article/94b535…
- As thousands of Yazidis yet again flee Shingal for the Kurdistan Region ~ last night, dep governor of Duhok told us that over *3,000* people have left due to ISF-YBS clashes ~ this is a fascinating piece by @_____mjb on the YJS: the women's wing of the YBS
- Thanks to @antonioguterres et al. for being awarded the silver Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize for reporting on the @UN @UNHCRIraq humanitarian transition in #Iraq (& the issues this raises of state responsibility v international obligations): thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2… #UNCAwards
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- In 2015, 85+ people were killed by a Dutch airstrike in Hawija. The Dutch MOD agreed to pay a "voluntary contribution" of $4.4 mill - $1.7 mill to @undpiniraq & $3.6 mill to @IOMIraq - which survivors say they've seen little of. By @PMagid & @HawreKhalid2:
- Today marks the 1 year since the #Yazidi Survivors Law was passed by the Iraqi Parliament. This weekend in Khanke, Iraqi Kurdistan, I met many women + children who had absolutely NO idea how to access support nor that it was even available. Serious issues in its implementation.
- From the top of the Kurdistan Region’s highest mountain – Halgurd – you can also see Iran & Turkey. Quite the climb….!! A stunning place to hike. So lucky to have walked/slid it in such great company. 🌞 ⚠️ Not for the fainthearted ⚠️
- Beautiful #Kurdistan - excited to be on a small part of the new Zagros Mountain Trail ⛰ 250km from Al Qosh to Choman, and some great guides stationed along the way... major creds to Leon + Laween behind the project 👏
- Replying to @AlannahTraversHere is my piece on the struggles facing one family: Khansa - grandmother - living alone with 4 of her grandchildren: all held by ISIS for varying lengths. Barely a week before I met them, her eldest - Roza, 18 - had returned from Syria after almost 8 yrs. rudaw.net/english/middle…
